Questions tagged [stocks]

This tag is to be used for any questions related to Stocks. Ideally they should be accompanied by a country tag if relevant. It is discouraged to ask question about a specific stock. However an example can be used to illustrate a point.

Would it be a good idea to invest long term in a stock but buy in the morning and sell at the close every day? This can reduce the risk of an economic crisis affecting my portfolio. I would hold it ...

Looking at AAPL, how does Yahoo Finance calculate that today's float is 4.59B shares?
I was hoping to find SEC filings from AAPL confirming this, but I can only conclude that the float was 5.20B back ...

Let's say that I short-sell 1 share that A lent to me and B immediately bought from me.
Doesn't this create additional share in the market because A will see it as "lent out" in his bank account and ...

Let's say I have some securities (stock/bond/index/etc..) that I want to sell in the near future, but it's not urgent to me, and I can wait for a few weeks if it will help me to maximize the profit.
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For the sake of argument, let's assume a scenario, where the company is very illiquid, and there are no shares for sale and even increasing the buy order doesn't produce sellers. What happens to the ...

Company results and other periodic company announcements nearly always have an effect on stock prices. I am unclear as to how often these are typically made - is it every year, every six months, or ...

Descriptions of the Kelly criterion are usually illustrated by examples about making optimal bets. But what would the guidelines be regarding using it to put together an optimal stock portfolio? For ...

I read that as long as I hold a stock for two business days, I will get a dividend? What if I make multiple trades for one stock. For example, if I buy 20 shares and sell 20 two days later, then I buy ...

I believe it was an energy company. My mother purchased it for me then. Just discovered the certificate. It has either merged or gone out of business. Can anyone help me trace it? Once the company is ...

When analysts define a new price target for a stock. Is it based on actual fundamentals: costs, earnings, etc. Or does it include a guesstimation of how much the stock will change based on emotions ...

I know that this type of account does not exist in the US. For those who know, is there absolutely no tax deducted from my earnings when I invest in stocks? For example, if I turn 10000 to 1 million, ...

I'm a web developer responsible for creating a website that has a section which contains the stock information of a certain company.
This information is retrieved through an API which a stock exchange ...

I was looking at a Vanguard ETF after the market had closed. The ETF usually trades in the 80 dollar range. I was looking to put in a market order for some shares that would execute the next morning ...

Theoretically, the price of a stock should always fall whenever a dividend is paid out to shareholders. Is this true in practice? If it is, I can just short the stock before the dividend is paid and ...

Is it a good idea to buy a stock before its earnings come out if I believe that there will be a surprise and then sell after the report comes out? Will the gains be substantial enough for me to take ...

Is day trading better than long term investing given the fact that compound interest can result in large profits in the long term with small daily profits? For example earning 1% per trading day can ...

I've a question related to filing ITR - whether I've to file ITR1 or ITR2. Below is my scenario.
I'm a salaried employee and I hold a Form-16 for FY1718. During FY1718, I bought few shares which I'm ...

So I understand that there are different type of voting rights for different classes of any security like one class can have 5 votes per share and other 1 vote per share. But I was just wondering if ...

I've gotten lucky and got around $10k U.S. that I'm willing to experiment with in the stock markets.
I still work full-time and I'm financially stable. I think that stocks can be a "hobby-job" where I'...

When I compare values [open, high, low, close] between alphavantage.co and api.iextrading.com, there are 'inconsistencies' between values. I am wanting to better target support and resistance levels, ...

When a stock does well on the income statement, with high quarterly earnings growth, when does this get reflected on the price? It seems like stocks always follow the market performance. When does it ...

I'm an international student in the USA on an F1 Visa. I just want to know if I can use Robinhood app on my visa status. I've found some posts on Quora that say trading is completely legal, but should ...

I read an article on "Leverage buy out" in stock trading. The article said that the investor/speculator only pays a portion of what he's supposed to pay for his stocks (or money in the case of forex, ....

I am a new hire at a large private company that is undergoing some rapid growth. I hope to stay with this company for at least the next few years. At my hire, I was offered stock options equivalent ...

what's the effective differences for a trader at IB between CFDs and stocks? As far as I understand the following:
CFDs are quoted at the same price as the underlying stock (ask/bid is the same) and ...

While working at an Indian branch of a company based in US, I got some Restricted Stock Units vested couple of times.
Earlier times (Scenario S1), all the stocks (Say I got 100 stocks vested) would ...

I'm trying to understand some fundamentals of what it means to invest in the stock market. This question and the answers have been helpful to me:
Why does demand for stock rise when a company appears ...

Are stock returns based on market wide returns? When there is no new news released about the specific company, prices still rise or fall based on the market. When would a stock's trajectory diverge ...